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‘But content owners have raised legitimate questions about the scope and effect of these measures, and concerns about whether they would eviscerate their copyright protection technologies must be addressed.’

‘It takes a lot of chutzpah to denounce the unhealthy influence of campaign contributions at the exact moment you are eviscerating the spirit of our campaign laws.’

‘The government's proposed monitoring would have eviscerated the attorney-client privilege.’

‘As one might expect, he's wasting no time eviscerating the sports media.’

‘Should patents on research tools that have no significant market outside the research community be subject to a research exemption that effectively eviscerates their commercial value?’

‘He both eviscerates the Democrats' arguments and puts the issue in Constitutional perspective.’

‘The disease is not only devastating families and communities; it is eviscerating national economies.’

‘None of these possibilities are likely to unfold, however, if the promise of economic security for retirement is eviscerated in the meantime.’

‘An appellate tribunal overturned the original opinion that had eviscerated free speech rights.’

‘Third, this is also the argument against ‘triggers’ that end the tax cuts if the deficit dwindles, because it eviscerates the restraints on government growth imposed by the tax cuts.’

‘He learned from it, for here he eviscerates American culture as he defines class distinctions.’

‘Today, as democratic politics is eviscerated into marketing alone, it is assumed that this candidate deserves to win.’

‘Rather than a lack of will, what Latin America suffers from is a set of interlocking institutional crises that eviscerate the democratic order without necessarily promoting dictatorship.’

‘Extending terms of existing copyrights eviscerates this deal, granting a windfall to corporate copyright holders and heirs of famous artists in exchange for nothing, since the creators are mostly dead.’

‘An all-file-sharing environment would eviscerate the capital resources that make the technological development possible, and probably drive up the average cost to home-recorders considerably.’

‘He is simply an unwitting victim of circumstance; a convenient scapegoat for eviscerating the rule of law.’

‘He lied us into two hideously unfair tax cuts; he lied us into an unnecessary war with disastrous consequences; he lied us into the Patriot Act, eviscerating our freedoms.’

‘The real issue today is how to beat the insurgency without eviscerating the American military to do it.’

‘But, Brandon says, courts have essentially eviscerated this part of the 21st Amendment - good for economic liberty but bad interpretation of the constitutional text.’

1.2Surgery Remove the contents of (the eyeball).

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin eviscerat- disembowelled, from the verb eviscerare, from e- (variant of ex-) out + viscera internal organs.